Cartridge-magazine.



L. T. MIQKH CARTRIDGE MAGAZINE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1918.

Patented June 16, 1914.

luvs/nan WITNESSES A .4 TTMNEV UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

LOUIS '1. MICKE', OF OWENSVILLE, MISSOURI.

SARTRIDGE-MAGAZINE 1,099,992. Specifieatio? of Letters Patent Patented June 16, 1914.

Application filed April 19, 1913. Serial No. 762,324.

To all whom it may concern: forms a chamber for the reception of shells Be it known that 1, Lotus T. lliIoKE, a 8. such as are used in the fire-arm.

citizen of the United States, residing at Mounted in the lower cnd'of the elongated ()wensdlle in the county of fiasconade and chamber 7 is a inembensl one portion of 60 State of Missouri, have invented certain which projects upwardly into the chamber new and tuseful Improvements'in Cartridge-' and forms a guide-way for the shells S to Magazines, of which the following is a specifacilitate the insertion of the same into the fication. chamber or the extraction of them from the This invention relates to fire-arms and member 9 which has the enlarged plate or 65 JJ) more particularly to improvements" in the projection 10 formed upon its lower end magazines or storing chambers for the carwhichenters the enlarged cut-out portion 6 tridges or shells used with rifles or similar and engages the upper end of the member guns. 11. The member 11 has an opening 12 cen- An object of this invent-ion is to provide trally located therein which is adapted at 70 a cartridge or shell magazine, principally to times to coincide with the opening in the be used for rifles, which is formed within member 9 and the handle portion 13 which the stock of the gun and one which will be extends outwardly past one side of the gun positive and unfailing in action; will aid in stock 1 so as to be-accessible bythe finger balancing the fire-arm as well as aitording" of the person using the fire-arm. The mem- 75 a convenient and practical manner for carber 11 has a portion 1% formed integral rying the ammunition from place to place, therewith and extending inwardly into the and also one from which the ammunition enlarged portion of the cut-out portion 6 may be easily and quickly extracted as and pivotally mounted upon the pin 15 desired. which is mounted in the stock 1. 3o

With the foregoing and other objects in A cut-out portion 16 is formed in the stock view. this invention consists in such novel and communicates with the cut-out portion features of construction, combination and (3 and has a twisted portion 18 of the spring arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter 17 mounted therein. The end 19 of the more fully described, illustrated in the acspring 17 is mounted in one side of the stock 30 companying drawings, and claimed. l as is shown at 20 while the other end 21 In describing the invention in detail, refengages one side of the member 11 and tends erence will be had to the accompanying to hold it in the position as illustrated in drawings wherein like characters of refer- 1 Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings or so as to preence designate like or corresponding parts vent the cartridges from falling out of the 35 throughout the several views, and in magazine through the opening 5 in the rewhich- T coil plate 2. Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional view. When it is desired to insert the cartridges through the stock of the fire-arm; Fig. 2 S into the elongated chamber 7 the member is an end view, showing the recoilplate re- 11 is moved by means of the handle portion 40 moved and the mechanism for dispensing 13 until the opening '12 therein coincides of the cartridges in such a position as to with the opening 5 in the recoil plate. A prevent the cartridges from being extracted cartridge is then inserted within the openfrom the magazine; and Fig. 3 is a View ing 12 of the member 11 and the pressure similar to Fig. 2 only showing the mechais released from the handle. The spring 17 M5 nism in a position to allow of the extracting will then force the member 11. back into a of the cartridges. position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or in a In referring to the drawings by numeral. position so that the opening 12 will com.- 1 designates-the stock of a fire-arm of the cide with the opening in the member 9 and type commonly known as a rifle which has with the elongated chamber 7. The shells 05 50 the recoil plate 2 mounted upon its outer or will then fall by means of gravitation, on} large end 3 by means of the screws 4.; The of the opening 12 and into the chamber K, recoil plate 2 has an aperture 5 extending provided the gun is inverted so that the therethron'gh which communicates with a mouth of the barrel of the same pointing cut-out portion 6 formed in the end 0:1. the downward This operation s repeated until .5 stock 1. Ali. elongated chamber 7 er-ends the elongated chamber 7 is completely filled inwardly into the sthok 1 of the gun, and with cartridges or until the desirednumber of cartridges has been inserted within the chamber.

\Vhen it is desired to remove the cartridges from the chamber 7, the gun is held '5 in a position so that the weight of the shells will force them, one at a time, into. the opening 12. The member 11 is then actuated by means of the handle 13 and they -anrtridge contained within the opening 12 will fall through the opening into the hand of the person using or operating the means and when the handle portion 13 isrelieved of pressure, thespring will force the member 11 back so as to receive a second cartridge from the chamben' In practical fields, certain minor features of construction, combination and arrangement'of parts may necessitate alterations to which the patentee is entitled, provided such alterations are comprehended within the scope of what is claimed.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a gun stock having an elongated chamber extending informed withinthe other end of the stock and fdommunicating with one end of said chan1- ber and a plate secured to the outer end of said stock, said plate provided with an opening-out of line With said chamber, of means movably mounted within said out out portion and alternately registering With the chamber-and the opening in the butt plate for effecting-the discharge of one eartridge at a time and simultaneously preventing the discharge of the following cartridge during the egress of the discharging cartridge. I

2. The combination of a gun stock having 40 an elongated chamber formed therein, acut out portion communicating gated chamber and a plate secured to the outer end of saidstook, said plate provided I Wtlth an opening out of line with said chamber, of a tubular member pivotally mounted out portion and normally within said cut.

tridge contained in wardly therein, an enlarged cut out portion registering with said chamber, and means for swinging said member laterally of said elongated chamber into coincidence with the opening in the butt plate whereby a carsaid chamber may be extracted therefrom.

I 3. The combination of a gun stock having an elongatedchamber formed therein, a cut out portion communicating with said elongated chamber and a plate secured to the outer end of said stock, said plate provided with an opening out ofwlin'e with said chamber, of a tubular member pivotally mounted within said out out portion, means for holding said tubular member in alinement with said chamber, and means for swinging said tubular member laterally of said elongated chamber whereby to allow said tubular member to aline with the opening in said plate.

4. The combination of a gun stock having anelongatedchamber .formed therein, a cut out portion con'miunicat ing with said chamber and a plate secured to the outer end of said stock, said plate provided with an open-. ing out of line with sald chamber, of a tubular member pivotally mounted within said cut'out portion and normally register;

ing with said chamber, resilient means dis posed-within said cut outportion and bearmg against one end of said out out portion andsaid tubular member for holding said member in ahnement with said chamber,

'and a handle formed upon said tubular member for swinging the member laterally of said elongated chamber into coincidence with the opening of the butt plate whereby a cartridge contained in said chamber may be extracted therefrom.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' LOUIS T. MICKE, \Vi tnesses SAMUEL TAPPMEYER, JOSHUA TAPPMEYER. 

